Deputy Speaker Eleanor Laing and Tory MP Jo Churchill have just announced that they are stepping down at the election. Laing told Guido in 2009 that she
The Conservative Party still needs to fill some 150 candidate spots six weeks out from the country heading to the polls - a headache further exacerbated after two ministers today announced they would not contest their seats.
Rishi Sunak admitted there was no way that his key pledge to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda would be met by polling day - as he was confronted by a voter on NHS waits